Laura Toles
@lauratoles.bsky.social
PhD CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist, voice therapist, researcher, Assistant Professor UT Southwestern voice center, #academicmom (she/her)
Excited to share my new publication with PhD student-extraordinaire, Juliana Smeltzer, and collaborator Dr. Kaila Stipancic. We identified real and clinical meaningful changes in the CAPE-V voice quality scales. A step toward more accurate interpretation of our perceptual outcome measures!
A new study in #JSLHR identifies the minimally detectable change and minimal clinically important difference in CAPE-V voice quality scales. @lauratoles.bsky.social
Minimal Clinically Important Differences in CAPE-V Auditory–Perceptual Ratings of Voice Quality
Purpose: This study aimed to determine the minimally detectable changes (MDCs) and minimal clinically important differences (MCIDs) of auditory-p...
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April 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Excited to share my new publication with PhD student-extraordinaire, Juliana Smeltzer, and collaborator Dr. Kaila Stipancic. We identified real and clinical meaningful changes in the CAPE-V voice quality scales. A step toward more accurate interpretation of our perceptual outcome measures!
Reposted by Laura Toles
A thing about Booker: he's one of the most consistently on-message politicians I've ever met.
He told me this in 2018:
"Every speech I give, I will not yield from talking about that revival of civic grace. Talking about revival of the civic gospels. Talking about the need to love one another."
He told me this in 2018:
"Every speech I give, I will not yield from talking about that revival of civic grace. Talking about revival of the civic gospels. Talking about the need to love one another."
April 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A thing about Booker: he's one of the most consistently on-message politicians I've ever met.
He told me this in 2018:
"Every speech I give, I will not yield from talking about that revival of civic grace. Talking about revival of the civic gospels. Talking about the need to love one another."
He told me this in 2018:
"Every speech I give, I will not yield from talking about that revival of civic grace. Talking about revival of the civic gospels. Talking about the need to love one another."
First of all, bravo to Cory Booker! An incredible feat which most certainly involved sacrifice.
But, as a voice scientist, I feel like we missed the boat for a cool case study on the impact of 25 straight hours of voice use on vocal fold tissue health. Amazingly, his voice held up well though!
But, as a voice scientist, I feel like we missed the boat for a cool case study on the impact of 25 straight hours of voice use on vocal fold tissue health. Amazingly, his voice held up well though!
April 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
First of all, bravo to Cory Booker! An incredible feat which most certainly involved sacrifice.
But, as a voice scientist, I feel like we missed the boat for a cool case study on the impact of 25 straight hours of voice use on vocal fold tissue health. Amazingly, his voice held up well though!
But, as a voice scientist, I feel like we missed the boat for a cool case study on the impact of 25 straight hours of voice use on vocal fold tissue health. Amazingly, his voice held up well though!
March 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is absolutely unacceptable
NEW:
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
newrepublic.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is absolutely unacceptable
Here I am, enrolling new participants into my longitudinal study, just hoping and praying I’ll continue to have funds to reassess them at the next time point.
February 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Here I am, enrolling new participants into my longitudinal study, just hoping and praying I’ll continue to have funds to reassess them at the next time point.
This is absurd. Several of the words on this list are going to show up in literally every grant.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is absurd. Several of the words on this list are going to show up in literally every grant.
Reposted by Laura Toles
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Reposted by Laura Toles
It was true a month ago and it’s even more true now. Please consider going to NIH RePORTER to look up how much money your state gets from NIH funding, and then write to your elected representatives about the impact that ending NIH grant review will have. No NIH study section==no NIH funding.
Why I continue to suggest that everyone who wants to advocate for science should go to NIH RePORTER, look up how much your state and congressional district receive in NIH funding, and write to your corresponding congressperson about it. Losing NIH funding has massive ripple effects. reporter.nih.gov
January 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It was true a month ago and it’s even more true now. Please consider going to NIH RePORTER to look up how much money your state gets from NIH funding, and then write to your elected representatives about the impact that ending NIH grant review will have. No NIH study section==no NIH funding.
NIH proposals not being reviewed, funded. This is day 2. Can’t imagine what the next 1,458 days will bring.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
NIH proposals not being reviewed, funded. This is day 2. Can’t imagine what the next 1,458 days will bring.
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📢 Laryngology, voice, and speech researchers:
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⏰ June 24 - 27th, 2025
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📆 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st, 2025
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Join us for the 16th AQL conference! aqlconference.com
🌍 Groningen, NL
⏰ June 24 - 27th, 2025
📥 Abstract submissions are open!
📆 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st, 2025
We welcome submissions on the following topics ⬇️
November 30, 2024 at 2:04 PM
📢 Laryngology, voice, and speech researchers:
Join us for the 16th AQL conference! aqlconference.com
🌍 Groningen, NL
⏰ June 24 - 27th, 2025
📥 Abstract submissions are open!
📆 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st, 2025
We welcome submissions on the following topics ⬇️
Join us for the 16th AQL conference! aqlconference.com
🌍 Groningen, NL
⏰ June 24 - 27th, 2025
📥 Abstract submissions are open!
📆 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st, 2025
We welcome submissions on the following topics ⬇️